Earth's Layers
The deepest, hottest layer.
What is Inner Core?
Scientific instruments that measure ground movement from seismic waves.
What is Seismographs?
How many seasons on Earth are there.
What is four seasons?
Found in high mountain valleys.
What is Valley Glacier?
What holds Earth in its orbit.
What is Inertia and Gravity?
The soft, malleable layer.
What is Asthenosphere?
A weak spot in Earth's Crust where magma and hot gases erupt.
What is Volcano?
When is Earth tilted on its axis.
What is always?
Covers a continent or large island.
What is Continenetal Glacier?
Which way does Earth rotate.
What is Counterclockwise on its axis?
The layer that is completely liquid.
What is Outer Core?
The number given to an Earthquake based on its strength.
What is Magnitude?
The longest days on Earth called what.
What is solstice?
Two ways Glaciers erode rock.
What is Abrasion and Plucking?
What are the Terrestrial Planets.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
The two types of Crust on Earth.
What is Continental Crust and Oceanic Crust?
The scale that rates Earthquakes on the size of the seismic waves.
What is Richter Scale?
When the days are the same length around the world.
What is equinox?
Two ways wind erodes land.
What is Deflation and Abrasion?
What are the Gas Giant Planets.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
The three types of plate boundaries.
What is Divergent, Convergent, and Transform?
The three main types of volcanoes based on shape.
What is Shield Volcano, Cinder Cone, and Composite Volcano?
Earth is tilted how many degrees on its axis.
What is 23.5 degrees?
How does a Glacier create landforms.
What is deposting sediments?
What would happen if gravity was nonexistent between Sun and Earth.
What is the Earth moving straight away from the Sun?